Interesting

This is interesting. But I dread the massive wave of New Age flakiness that will inevitably latch on to it...

This is really cool

I was made aware of The Wayback Machine at Archive.org today. You can search for an address and find ancient archived copies of the website. It's not perfect. My website's been up since 1994, but they don't have a copy of it from before 1998 (when I bought the Araneum.bc.ca domain. But I have my own archive! Wanna see what my website looked like in 1996? The All Dressed in Black page on the 1996 version is pretty much exactly the same as it was when it went up in 1994. Freak that I am, the original URL from 1994, http://mindlink.bc.ca/Michael_Barrick, still works (although all it does is redirect to the current location)! I can't believe I have had a personal website at the same address for 8 years.

Looking forward to impending normalcy

OK, yesterday sucked, considering the getting up at five o'clock in the morning and getting home at eleven o'clock at night thing, but I made it through and there was a major highlight I will post subsequently in a friend's-only post. Today it was a bit hard to get out of bed so I ended up a few minutes later than usual for work, but I made up for it at the end of the day. After work today was another great big ball of suckage... I hate this transition crap. I still have invoices to get out and work to do, but its not exactly my first choice of activities after spending the whole day wrapping my head around a new job. Nonetheless it still needs to be done. I am very much looking forward to the day when all I have to do is go to my good job and watch the money show up in my bank account on a regular basis. I'm tired of this independent consultant shit for now. Maybe I'll try it again in a few years when I've got my old debts out of the way (like the damned student loan).

It was decided today where my permanent office is going to be. I'll be staying in the office I am in now. This is good news because it means I can start settling in. I think I will bring my camera in with me tomorrow so I can show you all my new digs. I just want to settle in and get into the groove of it all now.

So, I went ahead and did it.

Yesterday I stopped by Birk's and bought the ring. I had to guess the size from just eyeballing her finger, so I hope to hell I guessed right. I have no idea how this is going to go. She has been pretty seriously depressed the last week of so... she has a buch of cruddy stuff going on right now, which was bad enough, and then her car died this week on top of it. I'm hoping a nice dinner and some sangria will get her cheered up a bit. I have no idea how she is going to react. I'm trying not to think about it too much so I'm not exceedingly nervous or get myself all freaked out.

"Just take a deep breath and jump..."